West Virginia Code
Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment
Article 2. Crimes Against the Person

§61-2-1. First and Second Degree Murder Defined; Allegations in Indictment for Homicide - Murder by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, or by...

§61-2-2. Penalty for Murder of First Degree - Murder of the first degree shall be punished by confinement...

§61-2-3. Penalty for Murder of Second Degree - Murder of the second degree shall be punished by a...

§61-2-4. Voluntary Manslaughter; Penalty - Voluntary manslaughter shall be punished by a definite term of...

§61-2-5. Involuntary Manslaughter; Penalty - Involuntary manslaughter is a misdemeanor and, any person convicted thereof...

§61-2-5a. Concealment of Deceased Human Body; Penalty - (a) Any person who, by any means, knowingly and willfully...

§61-2-6. Homicide Punishable Within State if Injury Occurs Within and Death Without, or Vice Versa - If any person be stricken, wounded or poisoned in, and...

§61-2-7. Attempt to Kill or Injure by Poison; Penalty - If any person administer, or attempt to administer, any poison...

§61-2-8. Abortion; Penalty - (a) Any person other than a licensed medical professional, as...

§61-2-9. Malicious or Unlawful Assault; Assault; Battery; Penalties - (a) If any person maliciously shoots, stabs, cuts or wounds...

§61-2-9a. Harassment; Penalties; Definitions - (a) Any person who engages in a course of conduct...

§61-2-9b. Penalties for Malicious or Unlawful Assault or Assault of a Child Near a School - Any person who, under the provisions of section nine of...

§61-2-9c. Wanton Endangerment Involving the Use of Fire; Penalty - Any person who, during the manufacture or production of an...

§61-2-9d. Strangulation; Suffocation and Asphyxiation; Definitions; Penalties - (a) As used in this section: "Bodily injury" means substantial...

§61-2-10. Assault During Commission of or Attempt to Commit a Felony; Penalty - If any person in the commission of, or attempt to...

§61-2-10a. Violent Crimes Against the Elderly; Sentence Not Subject to Suspension or Probation - (a) If any person be convicted and sentenced for an...

§61-2-10b. Malicious Assault; Unlawful Assault; Battery; and Assault on Governmental Representatives, Health Care Providers, Utility Workers, Law-Enforcement Officers, Correctional Employees and Emergency Medical Service Personnel; Definitions; Penal... - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Government representative” means...

§61-2-11. Unlawful Shooting at Another in Street, Alley or Public Resort; Penalty - If any person unlawfully shoot at another person in any...

§61-2-12. Robbery or Attempted Robbery; Penalties - (a) Any person who commits or attempts to commit robbery...

§61-2-13. Extortion or Attempted Extortion by Threats; Penalties - (a) A person who threatens injury to the character, person,...

§61-2-14. Abduction of Person; Kidnapping or Concealing Child; Penalties - (a) Any person who takes away another person, or detains...

§61-2-14a. Kidnapping; Penalty - (a) Any person who unlawfully takes custody of, conceals, confines,...

§61-2-14b. Venue of Offenses Under §§61-2-14 and 61-2-14a - In the case of every offense committed in violation of...

§61-2-14c. Penalty for Threats to Kidnap or Demand Ransom - If any person, with intent to extort from any other...

§61-2-14d. Concealment or Removal of Minor Child From Custodian or From Person Entitled to Visitation; Penalties; Defenses - (a) Any person who conceals, takes or removes a minor...

§61-2-14e. One Aiding or Abetting in Offense Under §61-2-14, §61-2-14a, §61-2-14c or §61-2-14d Guilty as Principal; Venue - If any person in any way knowingly aid or abet...

§61-2-14f. Penalties for Abduction of a Child Near a School - Any person who, under the provisions of section fourteen of...

§61-2-14g. Unlawful Restraint; Penalties - (a) Any person who, without legal authority intentionally restrains another...

§61-2-14h. Prohibition of Purchase or Sale of Child; Penalty; Definitions; Exceptions - (a) Any person or agency who knowingly offers, gives, or...

§61-2-15. Assault, Battery on School Employees; Penalties - (a) If any person commits an assault: (1) By unlawfully...

§61-2-15a. Assault, Battery on Athletic Officials; Penalties - (a) If any person commits an assault as defined in...

§61-2-16. Injury to Passenger by Person in Charge of Public Conveyance or Boat; Penalty - If any driver, conductor, motorman, captain or other person in...

§61-2-16a. Malicious Assault; Unlawful Assault; Battery and Recidivism of Battery; Assault on a Driver, Conductor, Motorman, Captain, Pilot or Other Person in Charge of Any Vehicle Used for Public Conveyance - (a) Malicious assault. -- Any person who maliciously shoots, stabs,...

§61-2-26. Doors to Be Removed From Abandoned Refrigerators, Freezers and Other Appliances; Penalties - No person shall abandon any refrigerator or food freezer appliance...

§61-2-27. Required Reporting of Gunshot and Other Wounds - (a) Any medical provider who provides medical treatment to a...

§61-2-27a. Required Reporting of Burns - (a) Any health care provider who examines or renders medical...

§61-2-28. Domestic Violence — Criminal Acts - (a) Domestic battery. — Any person who unlawfully and intentionally...

§61-2-29. Abuse or Neglect of Incapacitated Adult; Definitions; Penalties - (a) The following words, when used in this section and...

§61-2-29a. Death of an Incapacitated Adult by a Caregiver - (a) A caregiver who intentionally and maliciously neglects an incapacitated...

§61-2-29b. Financial Exploitation of an Elderly Person, Protected Person, or Incapacitated Adult; Penalties; Definitions - (a) Any person who financially exploits an elderly person, protected...

§61-2-30. Recognizing an Embryo or Fetus as a Distinct Unborn Victim of Certain Crimes of Violence Against the Person - (a) This section may be known and cited as the...